Murlough Cottage, 17 Murlough Road, Goodland Tl, Ballycastle, Co.Antrim

Detached six-bay single-storey with attic rendered house, built c.1830. Rectangular on plan facing northeast with projecting front entrance porch. Set at the end of Murlough Road overlooking Murlough Bay. Pitched artificial slate roof with black clay ridge tiles extended to the rear pitch over rear extension and cement coping to either gable end. Four capped rough-cast cement rendered chimneystacks with lead flashing. Cast-iron guttering on iron brackets and cast-iron downpipes. Painted rough-cast cement rendered walling with smooth cement rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with painted concrete sills and replacement multi-pane double-glazed top-hung timber casement windows. Asymmetrical single-storey front elevation with off-centre gable-fronted entrance porch having segmental-headed window opening to the front and square-headed door opening to the right cheek with replacement sheeted timber door. Low level rendered wall abuts northeast corner. Gabled single-storey southeast side elevation with a large square-headed window opening and a further smaller window opening to the left. Multi-bay single-storey rear elevation with lean-to extension spanning the right half of the elevation having diminutive window openings and aluminium skylights to the roof. Two-storey southwest gabled side elevation with a pair of diminutive window openings at attic level having replacement four-pane timber casement windows. Roof Fibre cement tiles RWG Cast-iron Walling Painted rough-cast cement render Windows Replacement timber casement Setting: Set at the end of Murlough Road overlooking Murlough Bay within a publicly accessible park desgnated a Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI 330). A small rubblestone outbuilding, with raised skews and natural slate roof is located southeast of the house; originally used as pig house.